[plug] OS chimera revisited

[Leon Brooks]

On Friday 21 December 2001 11:14, Steve Grasso wrote:
> but not while fsck /dev/hda5 is mounted on / as it's likely to be. Running
> fsck on a mounted file system isn't to be recommended. Better to boot from
> a floppy to fsck the root partition.

Generally, the root partition is mounted readonly at this point, which is OK. 
The big risk in fsck'ing a live partition is that an app and fsck will 
disagree about what's been written where.

And even then, it's only a risk, not a guarantee of failure.

Cheers; Leon